Official Languages committee  Actually, economic development is not the only goal. I am referring to all the issues related to communities. In terms of economic development, there is CMC of course, but there are also colleges, universities and RDEEs. Many organizations are working on economic development. Fo

Official Languages committee  The departments spending the money should speak to the community before they spend it. As for the governance of that money, it is important to make sure that the representative organizations in place are consulted. If money is being given to CMC, CMC must be required to work with

Official Languages committee  Actually, the majority of organizations work well. As you know, our funding has not gone up in years. We have the same pie for the same number of organizations, but sometimes we must share it with emerging organizations. As a result, the pieces of the pie are getting smaller whi

Official Languages committee  Another strategic plan is being implemented by the anglophone community in Quebec and by francophone and Acadian communities, in collaboration with economic development organizations, CEDEC and RDEE Canada. You will understand that we are very concerned by the fact that the eco

Official Languages committee  There is an agreement with the Quebec government's Secrétariat aux affaires intergouvernementales canadiennes. We have excellent cooperation with the Quebec government. I am talking about all francophone and Acadian communities, not just the FCFA. We share expertise and training.

Official Languages committee  I am a big fan of co-operatives. I am a member of a number of co-operatives myself. So I applaud the fact that the new structure is maintaining its mandate in the context of minority communities. But I would still like to sound a note of caution. In our country, bilingual organi

Official Languages committee  Sure. There are national tables in various departments and in several of our organizations. I do not want to just talk about the departments because there are national and local tables too. Our impression is that not all stakeholders participate. There are a lot of economic playe

Official Languages committee  Mr. Chair and members of the committee, I first want to thank you for having invited the FCFA to address you today. As the leader of the collaborative networks of francophone and Acadian communities entrusted with seeing to the overall development of these communities, the FCFA

Official Languages committee  People do not always have the motivation, particularly young people. We are talking about tools you can use on your own. You also have to understand that learning a language is very complex. There is the conjugation of verbs, particularly if you are going from English to French.

Official Languages committee  So you have to make sure you do not just use virtual tools to learn the language. I would say the government uses excellent automated or virtual tools for language training. Yes, that is good, but it is not enough. I absolutely agree that you should add them to promote language

Official Languages committee  Immersion, French-language education and English-language education are included in the transfer programs. If the provinces can disregard them as they wish, what is the point in talking about French immersion if we are going to let them do what they want? I hear that negotiation

Official Languages committee  So I wonder why we bother to talk about French immersion and English immersion but do not demand accountability, if only on these matters to ensure that the money allocated to immersion actually goes to immersion and that the money intended for French is actually allocated to Fre

Official Languages committee  My first thought is to remove all myths that linguistic duality is very costly and bring forward the economic value, the social value of linguistic duality. On advertising, as I said, there are so many role models within our country of what is linguistic duality. I can think of

Official Languages committee  I think that may be due to people's ignorance of the value that bilingualism adds. Our communities do a lot of work with the provinces, which increasingly recognize the contribution of francophones and linguistic duality. However, not all provinces have reached the same point. T

Official Languages committee  To my knowledge, Punjabi and Mandarin are not the country's official languages. However, they are very definitely valued for the purposes of international exchange. As Canadian citizens, we must educate our children in both official languages. I speak four languages. I learned E